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- Malcolm Lowry (born July 28, 1909, Wallasey, Cheshire, England—died June 27, 1957, Ripe, Sussex) was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet whose masterwork was Under the Volcano (1947; reissued 1962). It was begun in 1936 and is redolent of that period, when the world itself seemed to be lurching toward self-destruction.
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Clarence Malcolm Lowry ( / ˈlaʊri /; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list. [1] Biography. Early years in England.
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Malcolm Lowry (1909–57) was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His masterwork was Under the Volcano, a novel about the last day of an increasingly irrational man that received some critical praise when published in 1947 but achieved wider popularity after his death.
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Biography. Malcolm Lowry was born in 1909 in New Brighton, Cheshire. After leaving school, he sailed as a cabin boy to the Far East and used this as basis for his first novel – Ultramarine. It was on this trip that he started seriously drinking, an affliction that was to remain with him for the rest of his life.
Jun 11, 2018 · Literature and the Arts. English Literature, 20th cent. to the Present: Biographies. Malcolm Lowry. views 1,868,459 updated Jun 11 2018. Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) is best known for his one and only masterpiece, an autobiographical novel entitled Under the Volcano. It weaves together themes of alienation, love, political idealism, and myth.
Dec 10, 2007 · Malcolm Lowry died in his cottage in the village of Ripe, in Sussex, late at night on June 26, 1957, or early the next morning. He was forty-seven years old. His wife, Margerie, found his body...
Under the Volcano. Under the Volcano is a novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947. The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the Mexican city of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead in November 1938.
Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet whose masterpiece Under the Volcano is widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Born near Liverpool, England, Lowry grew up in a prominent, wealthy family and chafed under the expectations placed upon him by parents and boarding school.
